It's been a long time coming, but I finally bought Assassin's Creed 2 to experience the world for myself. My friend is always talking about it, and I'm bored as hell with all of my games, so I thought I'd try something new.

Brax4 wrote:I sure hope you don't have an Xbox Blord.. If you do, Assassin's Creed II is free in the coming month/s?

They did have it as a free download a few weeks ago if you bought gold. I'm not sure about it becoming free in a few months though.

And seriously, I would have done it and or waited for it but I don't have any room in my hard drive. I bought my Xbox back in I think 2007-ish and its the 20 GB drive. Most of the room has been used up from the system, and a few games which are way too big. Like Halo 4 I think is using up 4.5 GB or something.

This is the one game that I wish I had a PS3 for, because it looks so amazing on it.

Ah, I forgot if it was coming soon or had already come. I never saw anything about it on the dashboard, so I assumed it hadn't come out for free download yet.

Well, still, it's an amazing game. If you're not looking to finish all the games, I'd skip Altair and Conner's storylines. Both of them are cool characters, but the design of the games, I felt, were awful. AC1 is forgivable because it was the first, it was released early on, and it wasn't too bad, just a bit wonky. AC3 just took everything and messed with it, it tried to be too much and ended up ruining it for me. I haven't completed it because I just didn't find it fun. The multiplayer was great, other than that, I didn't care for it.

It's a shame considering I beat AC2, AC Brotherhood, and AC Revelations in about 4 weeks total because I loved them so much.

Brax4 wrote:I'd skip Altair and Conner's storylines. Both of them are cool characters, but the design of the games, I felt, were awful. AC1 is forgivable because it was the first, it was released early on, and it wasn't too bad, just a bit wonky. AC3 just took everything and messed with it, it tried to be too much and ended up ruining it for me.

I've heard that from a surprising amount of people. It seems from what I heard that AC 2 and its "expansions" is where the game got "perfect". My friend, the one who is into AC like I'm into Halo (he has a hidden blade), told me to just skip AC1, it just wasn't worth it.

That is a little surprising to here with the AC3 storyline, but I imagine any game that takes place in Colonial America is a little screwed up and boring.

It's not the story that bugs me about 3, it's the gameplay. Revelations was going that way with its' use of bombs and other small features. But I still found that to be fun. After playing the Multiplayer of 3, I was stoked. I didn't really enjoy the game mechanics of the actual story though, I felt it was lacking something.

2 is really the best. Brotherhood was great. Revelations was pretty good. 3 just didn't cut it. Even 1 was fun once you got into it, even though it was repetitive, and Altair didn't have an accent, and all that, I still enjoyed 1 once I got everything down. 1's faults and flaws weren't overly bad.

Also TMD :My mistake.

Blood Lord wrote:They did have it as a free download a few weeks ago if you bought gold.

I had loads of fun free running and climbing in AC2 as well. Climbing around Venice and Florence was so much fun.

Personally, I liked 3 as well. I was in a crappy mood the other day and went on a 45 minute killing spree using one of the large axes the Grenadiers carry.

"Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close about him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits."

Originally, I planned on buying Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, because I loved the original. But this game caught my eye, a stealth action RPG, sounds like my type of game.

What I got was a piece of junk. I looked past a lot of the flaws. The graphics were very similar to The Walking Dead, which is a good thing, but the mouth movement was awful, not only that, but the dialogue is badly paced. Still, I looked past those.

Here's what I found utterly wrong, the movement seemed off, it seemed clunky and strangely controlled, but I continued to dialogue, much like Mass Effect. There seemed to be nothing different between the choices you made, they just were questions, that you ask to everyone in the first area, and he sounds the same every time, not even smooth about it; the same options, everything. When you talked to people, their mouths basically opened, and stayed open until they were done talking, with the smallest twitches for each word. He had the same choices, and some people just said "Can't you see I'm busy" to every question asked. There only seemed to be 10 different character models for random people crowding up a room, and you could find clones upon clones upon clones. They all seemed to have the same 1 response everytime you chose the Talk option. So I continued, I figured the game mechanics wouldn't be so bad.

So I got to the "Training" section. Still clunky, I walked around, attempting to kill the other guys, which is tough, because you have no gun, you're relying solely on assassinations. The attacks were clunky still, and didn't run smoothly when you attacked someone. They also insist on you using your vampire powers, which basically seemed to be from Dishonored.

After training, I had had enough. This game is bad, there's no charm in it for me; even Alpha Protocol from like 4 years ago that I bought for $3, was an amazing game. This game attempted to be Mass Effect, Alpha Protocol, Dishonored, and The Walking Dead; and accomplished none of them.

This is why I read/watch reviews and first impressions, I already learned that thus game was crap before I even looked at it. I'd advise you to take at least a little time to research what you buy, impulse buying can leave you with junk games that you regret having paid for.

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"Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close about him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits."